The Cortina Motif, which Mušič painted with tempera on paper, is signed and dated 1962 lower right. In the Art Collection of Ljuban, Milada, and Vanda Mušič two sheets survive featuring a very similar motif, colour palette and signature which both were obviously made at the same time. He painted them in the Dolomites, in the vicinity of Cortina d’Ampezzo, where Mušič went in summertime in search of inspiration for his painting. Watching the multi-colour flowering meadows on the Dolomite mountain pastures he created the series which we call Cortina Motifs, Natural Screens, or Flowers of Cortina. They illustrate Mušič’s short-lived dealings with abstraction and informel, which started in the late 1950’s.
Characteristic of his painting is that he persistently looked for stimulation in nature, whether on the Karst, in Dalmatia, the Apennines, or the Dolomites, later also in French woods.